Chaka Fattah

Chaka Fattah (21 November 1956-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-PA 2) from 3 January 1995 to 23 June 2016, succeeding Lucien Blackwell and preceding Dwight E. Evans.

Biography
Arthur Davenport was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1956, and his divorced mother had his name changed to "Chaka Fattah" in 1968 after attending a Black Power conference. He was a community activist before serving in the state house from 1983 to 1988, in the State Senate from 1988 to 1994, and in the US House of Representatives from 1995 to 2016, serving as a Democrat. In 2016, he was indicted on racketeering and influence peddling conspiracy charges, and he was expelled from the US Congress and sentenced to ten years in a federal prison.